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Is it a Gothic Remake? Not yet, but it can become one: THQ Nordic releases playable prototype on Steam, asks for the player's opinion

Barcelona, Spain / Vienna, Austria, December 13th, 2019: „Welcome to the colony!“ – how is it possible that 18 years have passed since we first heard that phrase at the beginning of Gothic, the game that set a milestone in the history of German fantasy RPGs, such as Risen and Elex? Since then, we all have grown older, acquired some wrinkles, and are laughing at how we look in pictures from the early 2000s – or how games looked back then.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/950670/Gothic_Playable_Teaser/

But, what if we could turn back time, take everything that was great almost 20 years ago, and put it in a beautiful modern look (let’s say powered by Unreal Engine 4) along with improving some things that were not that great, like the combat system, for example?

Here’s the Trailer for the Gothic Playable Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuuUaHa3_sg
Check out the comparison video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crc2iO_-LR8

To find out what the true Gothic fanbase thinks of a modern remake of the cult classic RPG, THQ Nordic and its new Spanish development team, THQ Nordic Barcelona, will start an experiment. Today, a free playable prototype (Gothic Playable Teaser) of what a new Gothic could look and feel like will appear in the Steam Library of everyone who owns a game from Piranha Bytes, be it Gothic 1-3, Risen 1-3, or ELEX. They can play the yet-untitled Gothic Remake project and roam around the Mining Colony of Khorinis. After that, THQ Nordic is eager to learn from the players through a survey following the completion of the prototype, whether and how it should proceed with the production of a full Gothic Remake, or leave the heritage and the great memories associated with it untouched.

You want to learn more about the Gothic Playable Teaser? Check the official website:

https://www.gothic-game.com/

Enjoy
Your THQ Nordic team

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Updates to Arcania: Gothic 4 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Fixes

• Interruption of interactions with sword strikes
  
• Acknowledgements playback after loading a savegame
  
• Jump interrupted by FMV freezed character
  
• Cool down in the inventory screen
  
• Reduced ocean clipping problem for Stereoscopic 3D
  
• Arrows stick on already disintegrated Demon
  
• Stamina consumption while sprinting with equipped spells added
  
• SLI issues & optimizations
  
• Crash on vista machines when starting the game on the second adapter while the first adapter was disabled
  
• Stereoscopic 3D can be deactivated from the NVIDIA control panel before launching game
  
• Pickable item restoration
  
• Multiple CPU profiles in process manager
  
• Clouds use dynamic vertex buffer for frequent locking
  
• Performance problem with terrain tile generation
  
• Performance bug in trails
  
• Rare crash when arrows stuck in players vanished
  
• Additional unnecessary loading screen when using a teleport stone-need